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under glass in the face of this competi- 

 tion, that part of the business, as far as 

 greenhouse men are concerned, will soon 

 be a thing of the past, and the bulb pro- 

 ducers will have to depend for their reve- 

 nue entirely on the sale of the flowers. 



Edward Reid. 



PRESIDENT LEMAN BRADFORD. 



At the regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Springfield, O., September 14, 

 the annual election of officers was held 

 and Leman Bradford was elected presi- 

 dent. The other officers chosen were: 

 Vice-president, Frank E. Good; secre- 

 tary, Geo. D. Leedle (reelected) ; treas- 

 urer, John A. Doyle. 



The retiring president and the secre- 

 tary, in connection with the entertain- 

 ment committee, were instructed to pre- 

 pare a suitable program and banquet for 

 the installation of officers at the October 

 meeting. 



The president-elect is a son of Ashley 

 Bradford, one of the wheel horses in the 

 Bepublican party of some years ago, and 

 the son has been a faithful worker in the 

 same ranks, although he has never sought 

 political honors. For many years Leman 

 Bradford was well known as the local 

 agent for the Wells, Fargo & Co. express 

 and in this line of business he acquired 

 much detailed knowledge, as to the ship- 

 ping of floral stock, which has been of 

 material advantage to him during recent 

 years as secretary of the Springfield Flo- 

 ral Co., of which he is tltn active man- 

 ager. Mr. Bradford has been particularly 

 successful in devising new and original 

 methods in cataloguing and offering his 

 products. An excellent likeness of him is 

 shown in the photograph reproduced on 

 this page. 



Roger Murphy, of Urbana, exhibited at 

 the club meeting Aome exceptionally fine 

 blooms of the new Hydrangea arborescens 

 grandiflora, perfectly white and still in 

 their prime, which was considered re- 

 markable for such a late date in the sea- 

 son. Mr, Murphy gave a brief talk on 

 this subject and the possibility of so cul- 

 tivating this valuable shrub as to have it 

 in bloom every month in the year. 



Opha Jackson showed a beautiful vase 

 of buds and blooms of the rose Helen 

 Good, grown out-of-doors, and explained 

 the methods by which he had obtained 

 such splendid results. Ge Dale. 



DAHLIA AND GERANIUM SHOW. 



The Annual Affair at Vincent's, 



Forty Washington florists left on the 

 11 a. m. train, September 22, for Cowen- 

 ton, Md. The Baltimore florists joined 

 them at the Camden station on the Balti- 

 more & Ohio railroad, and it was a jolly 

 crowd that filed into the wagon train to 

 White Marsh. This place certainly should 

 be called Vincentville, for it is Mr. Vin- 

 cent's family and his employees that 

 make and inhabit the place. 



The exhibition proper was held in the 

 long potting shed. This show was given 

 in conjunction with the Ladies' Aid So- 

 ciety of the Ebenezer church, of Chase, 

 Md. The Aid Society furnished a fine 

 dinner, with the true a la Maryland 

 chicken and trimmings. The attendance 

 September 22 was estimated at 700. 

 After dinner the show looked fresher 

 and brighter. All the fine vegetables 

 and fruit you ever heard about were 

 there, even prize ducks and pickles. 



The center of the building was taken 

 np with dahlias, and they were there in 



Leman Bradford. 



all their glory. We saw Souv. de Gustave 

 Douzon, bright red, measuring seven and 

 eight inchps, and Mme. Van Den Deal, 

 extra fine large pink; Aegir, rich, bright 

 crimson; Ambassador, pure white; An- 

 telope, yellow, suffused bright salmon; 

 Eureka, one of the best pinks and a good 

 seller; Blush Queen, shell pink; Britannia, 

 deep salmon fiesh; A. D. Livoni, rich sea- 

 shell pink, and hundreds of others of 

 every conceivable color. 



One side of the building was devoted 

 to geraniums. Here were to be seen all 

 the latest varieties. Mr. Vincent expects 

 to grow 2,000,000 geraniums during the 

 season of 1909. There were plants of 

 all the latest novelties, including Mrs. 

 Annie Vincent, delicate pink with white 

 center; Gen. Lamarque, between crim- 

 son and cerise; Lusca, red with white 

 eye; Gen. Tarbel, heavy growth with 

 heavy truss of bright red, and a large 

 collection of Bruant's, Rozain-Bouchar- 

 lat's, Lemoine's, Cannell's, E. G. Hill's, 

 and other 1908 novelties. 



A trip through the houses was well 

 worth one's time. One house had 100 

 different varieties grown for show; one 

 had 400 varieties grown for trial; in 

 another were to be seen 1,000 plants 

 picked up by Mr. Vincent on his recent 

 trip to Europe, They looked good to 

 him and he is going to try them out. 

 Among these is a beautiful variegated 

 one, the leaves of which are white on 

 the edge, with a red stripe shading to 

 delicate green and a dark green center. 



After a trip through the houses, the 

 visitors assembled at Mr. Vincent's resi- 

 dence, where Mr. Seybold introduced 

 Rev. R. Hoffman. In a neat address he 

 told how much has been accomplished by 



the aid of the sdciety, and by visitors 

 at the summer meetings, as this is called 

 the harvest home festival of the Ebenezer 

 church. 



Mr. Vincent then spoke of the success 

 of the display last year, and the poor 

 showing this year on account of the 

 drought. At one time it looked as if 

 there would be no show. He said they 

 "did the very best they could, and it is 

 hoped by the help of Providence that in 

 another year they will have the best show 

 ever." 



Mr. Seybold thanked Mr. Vincent in 

 behalf of the Maryland Horticultural So- 

 ciety and the Washington and Baltimore 

 florists. He referred to what Mr, Vin- 

 cent had accomplished for the benefit of 

 horticulture throughout the country. He 

 invited all the exhibitors to be present 

 at the fall show December 1 and 2, in 

 Baltimore. 



William F. Gude, ex-president of the 

 S. A. F., was introduced. Among other 

 things he said: "This is a joint meet- 

 ing of the horticulturists and florists 

 from everywhere. Because there are not 

 1,000 horticulturists present, is no rea- 

 son why they should not be here. If they 

 knew what they would see and learn by 

 coming to White Marsh, they surely 

 would be here. It only shows how much 

 a man can accomplish when he wants 

 to, and the man is not among us who 

 cannot profit by the lesson we have be- 

 fore us today, when we come to think 

 that a few years ago this beautiful place, 

 with all its ornamental shrubbery, vast 

 greenhouses, lawns, and the neat homes 

 of the workmen, was a forest filled with 

 a rank undergrowth." He thanked Mr. 

 Vincent for his kind invitation to the 



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